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when joe is sedated he has a dream about going off to the war. he is on a train with all the other men who are going to die. christ shows up, he came up from Tucson. he starts playing cards with them, he gives them all whiskey. the men start talking about how they are going to die. sfter they all say how they are goign to die they turn to joe, they ask why he is on the train because he isnt gonna die. he tells them that he is going to have o arms and no legs and no face and wont even be able to breathe. they all agree that he ass it worse off than they do becuase they would rather be dead. he dreams that he runs off the moving train and folows christ.

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johnny's Gun 6

joe starts tapping his head because it is the only way he thinks he can communicate. he tries using morris code to communicate with people around him. at first the nurse doesn't know what he is doing, she never really figures it out yet. in the end of the chapter she is a little closer to figuring it out, but she assumes too much. all he wants to do is have contact with the outside world. all he wants to do is communicate with someone. she mistakes this as discomfort, at first.  after she does everything she can think of and he is still tapping she tries something new. lastly, she mistakes his tapping for a need of sexual expression. when he realizes what she is doing he is disgusted, he didn't want her to do anything like that. all he wanted to do was to communicate with some one. 

he has been laying there almost lifeless for years, he is outraged that she mistook his need for basic communication for a sexual need. 

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he decides to try and master the time because he has nothing else to do. the first time he attempts this he doesn't prevail because he cant keep track of time for very long. he cant keep his mind focused for long enough. the next time he attempts he is much more successful. he sticks with it and "times" his nurses. he figures out that he is getting treated every 2 hours, by the same nurse during the day. he is treated by different nurses at night. he figures out using the temperatures when it is night and day. i thought this was very interesting, because this is what they say when some one goes deaf and their eye sight gets better. because the only sense he has left is his touch so all his other senses are getting amazing.

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Joe thinks that people he cares about are worth fighting for.  he does not think that fighting for people he doesn't know is worth dying for. as he is laying there on the bed in the breathing machine he cant stop thinking about what is worth fighting for. he decides that Kareen is worth dying for. and even bigger he decides that people he knows and cares for are worth fighting over. he keeps thinking that he doesn't want to die for a fight that isn't his, and people that he doesnt know.

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while the rat could be completely true, we do not know if it is true of not. it doesn't really matter if the rat is real or not. it is almost worse if the rat is in his mind, it is messing with his mind. he thinks about when he saw the dead man being eaten by rats. this rings back bad memories of war. he starts thinking about how rats are the real enemies of war. they dont pick sides, they just eat off the dead body's flesh. this is important because it shows how he cant decide weather he is awake of asleep, he cant figure out is he is dreaming about it or if it is actually real. this causes him to think really hard about it, making him go crazy he is thinking about it so much. 

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Joe remembers working at the bakery because he has slipped out of consciousness again. he is "dreaming" about this because it was something he did before he was injured. he is upset about loosing his arm he cant stop thinking about Kareen. he thinks about jose because jose was an influential from his past. he was homeless, and he got a job with joe. when he was ready to move on and get a better job they wouldn't let him. so he did something to get him fired. he knocked over a stack of pies, he was fired over this. joe was thinking about jose because he admired his actions, he admired him for sticking up for what he wanted and not giving in to injustices. just because he was homeless doesn't mean that they can force him to stay at the bakery. i think he dreams of this because of Kareen. i think in his mind he is thinking that he doesnt have to have arms to love her and he wishes the thinks the same way that he does.